MR. M'KINLEY BY THE SEA; Long Branch in Gala Array to Greet President and His Wife. DECLARATION ON PHILIPPINES Future Policy There Outlined at Ocean Grove Camp Meeting -- Visit to the Tournament.

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August 26, 1899,

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LONG BRANCH, N.J., Aug. 25. -- President McKinley has surely been "in the hands of his friends" in Long Branch and Ocean Grove to-day. Not for many a day has this Mecca of the fashionables been so thoroughly enlivened, so radiant with the vivid colors of bewildering decorations, and so awake with the roar of saluting artillery, the clatter of parading cavalry, and the music of bands.

August 26, 1899

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